A conversation with conservative pioneer Richard Viguerie

Richard
Viguerie has been called one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative
movement. Now 80 years old, he first
emerged on the national scene in 1961, when he became the executive director of
the influential conservative youth organization Young Americans For Freedom,
whose alumni reads like a who’s who in the conservative movement. In 1965 he founded a direct mail company and
became a pioneer in political fundraising.
He has raised massive sums for conservative candidates and causes,
including Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and – more recently – Ron Paul. For that reason, he is sometimes called not
just a founding father of the conservative movement, but one of its funding
fathers as well.